Chapter Summaries

After absorbing the Whale Dragon, Tie Xiong used its energy to strengthen his External Soul Bone and recovered from his frenzy after Liu Erlong pulled him into the lake. The next morning, Flender reunited with Liu Erlong at Blue Tyrant Academy, where she said Tie Xiong would stay and predicted he would attract many factions after obtaining his second soul ring.

• Tie Xiong lunged at Liu Erlong while affected by the Whale Dragon's energy, and she pulled him into the lake before pushing him away.
• Tie Xiong pretended not to remember how he fell into the water, then reflected on his improved physique and the possibility of choosing a stronger second soul ring.
• Liu Erlong spent a sleepless night thinking about Tie Xiong and emerged from the cabin the next morning to find Flender waiting in a tree.
• Liu Erlong told Flender that Tie Xiong would remain at Blue Tyrant Academy and warned that he would draw many recruiters after absorbing his second soul ring.
• Flender said he would respect Tie Xiong's own choice about his future, while Liu Erlong recalled the young man's ambitions and dedication.

Tie Xiong tested the strength he gained from absorbing the five-thousand-year Whale Rubber and revealed his evolved External Soul Bone to Lu Qibin, Tai Nuo, and Tailong. He demonstrated that his hammer technique had reached perfection, ending in a Limit State that let him strike repeatedly at his maximum force of sixty-nine thousand jin.

• Tie Xiong struck the metal pillar with two thousand jin of force in his initial state and six thousand jin in Berserk State.
• Tie Xiong revealed his evolved right-foot External Soul Bone, which raised his strength to nine thousand jin and boosted several other attributes by fifty percent.
• Tie Xiong explained his External Soul Bone to Lu Qibin, Tai Nuo, and Tailong and asked the Strength Clan to keep it secret.
• Tie Xiong demonstrated the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer, whose force rose to forty-eight thousand jin by the fourteenth strike and sixty-nine thousand jin by the sixteenth.
• Tie Xiong recognized sixty-nine thousand jin as his Limit Strength, then maintained it from the seventeenth strike onward as his speed increased and his strain and Soul Power consumption fell.

Tie Xiong demonstrated mastery of the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer’s Limit State, then showed Flender and Lu Qibin his research arguing that a Soul Master’s first Soul Ring could reach eight hundred years. Flender pledged to protect Tie Xiong and help move his family’s blacksmith shop beside Blue Tyrant Academy while Tie Xiong focused on reaching level twenty.

• Tie Xiong maintained the Limit State through eighty-one hammer strikes, each delivering sixty-nine thousand jin, and Tai Nuo praised his mastery of the technique.
• Exhausted after training, Tie Xiong mistook Flender for a hallucination and struck him with the Heaven Breaking Hammer before realizing who he was.
• Flender told Tie Xiong that the academy had recruited a White Tiger Martial Soul student, and the three ate together and toured Blue Tyrant Academy.
• Tie Xiong showed Flender and Lu Qibin his paper proposing an eight-hundred-year limit for a first Soul Ring and describing the physical, mental, and combat requirements he had met.
• Flender and Lu Qibin were moved by Tie Xiong’s work and promised to protect him as his theory brought fame to Shrek Academy.
• Tie Xiong asked Flender to arrange for his parents and brothers to open a blacksmith shop beside Blue Tyrant Academy, and Flender agreed to do so before Tie Xiong reached Soul Grandmaster.

Tai Tan tried to recruit Tie Xiong into the Strength Clan and urged him to serve Tang Hao, but Tie Xiong refused and asked Tai Tan to obtain a rare-herb compendium from the Breaking Clan. Two months later, Tie Xiong reached level twenty and prepared to hunt for his second Soul Ring, while Tailong realized he was ready for his third.

• Tai Tan visited Blue Tyrant Academy and offered Tie Xiong a place in the Strength Clan, promising to help him grow stronger.
• Tai Tan revealed that he had come on Tang Hao’s behalf, but Tie Xiong refused to become Tang Hao’s disciple and said he would pursue strength on his own.
• Tie Xiong asked Tai Tan to obtain a compendium of rare medicinal herbs from the Breaking Clan in exchange for a book about Soul Ring limits, and Tai Tan agreed to ask Yang Wudi for one.
• Over the following two months, Tie Xiong continued training, while Liu Erlong secretly gathered Whale Rubber with his help.
• Tie Xiong reached level twenty, and Tailong realized that his improved strength meant he could absorb his third Soul Ring.
• Flender announced that they would hunt for Tie Xiong’s Soul Ring the next day.

Tie Xiong traveled with Liu Erlong, Flender, and members of Heaven Dou Royal Academy to Sunset Forest so he could test the limits of his second Soul Ring. When a mysterious green-haired old man suddenly appeared beside Dugu Yan, the group prepared to defend themselves.

• Liu Erlong explained that Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s education committee and Qin Ming were joining the trip to study Tie Xiong’s ability to absorb Soul Rings beyond his rank.
• Meng Shenji, Bai Baoshan, Zhi Lin, Dugu Yan, and Ye Lingling arrived at Blue Tyrant Academy, and the group set out for Sunset Forest.
• Tie Xiong awkwardly called Liu Erlong “Sister” after leaving Heaven Dou City, drawing looks from Liu Erlong, Dugu Yan, and Ye Lingling.
• The group entered Sunset Forest, while Flender went ahead to scout for suitable Soul Beasts and Tie Xiong wondered whether Dugu Bo was nearby.
• A green-haired old man appeared beside Dugu Yan, and Liu Erlong, Tai Tan, Meng Shenji, Bai Baoshan, and Zhi Lin activated their powers and braced for a fight.

Dugu Bo joined Dugu Yan’s group and led them to a 3,600-year-old Vajra Bear for Tie Xiong’s second Soul Ring. Tie Xiong began fighting the beast, leaving his attempt to absorb it unresolved.

• Dugu Bo revealed his nine Soul Rings, reunited with Dugu Yan, and greeted the group.
• Flender returned without finding a suitable bear Soul Beast, so Dugu Bo offered to take Tie Xiong to a 3,600-year-old Vajra Bear.
• Dugu Yan and Liu Erlong warned Tie Xiong to be careful, but he confidently followed Dugu Bo to the beast.
• Tie Xiong activated Berserk State and attacked the Vajra Bear with his Heaven Breaking Hammer and External Soul Bone.
• Dugu Bo questioned Flender about Tie Xiong’s External Soul Bone, then turned his attention back to the fight.

Tie Xiong defeated a three-thousand-six-hundred-year Vajra Bear after mastering his hammer technique and entered the Limit State. He began absorbing the bear's Soul Ring, but its immense energy immediately injured him, leaving his success uncertain.

• Tie Xiong repeatedly clashed with the Vajra Bear, building his strength until he surpassed the enraged beast's forty thousand jin.
• Tie Xiong entered the Limit State and hammered the Vajra Bear with sixty-nine thousand jin of force, driving it into retreat.
• Tie Xiong used powerful hammer techniques against the Vajra Bear's chest until it collapsed and its Soul Ring appeared.
• Ye Lingling healed Tie Xiong's injuries, and he recovered before preparing to absorb the Soul Ring.
• Tie Xiong drew the Soul Ring into his Heaven Breaking Hammer, but the energy struck him hard and made him spit blood as Liu Erlong and the others watched anxiously.

Tie Xiong endured the Vajra Bear's Soul Ring energy and successfully absorbed his second Soul Ring, which formed as a purple ring on his Heaven Breaking Hammer. He celebrated with Liu Erlong and showed off his yellow-and-purple Soul Ring combination to Dugu Yan and the others.

• Tie Xiong endured the Vajra Bear's powerful Soul Ring energy as it strengthened his body and condensed into a purple ring.
• Dugu Bo told Dugu Yan that Tie Xiong appeared close to success, while Tie Xiong sensed the ring's immense bloodline power and anticipated an overpowered second Soul Skill.
• After eight hours, Tie Xiong finished absorbing the Soul Ring and found that his Heaven Breaking Hammer had grown heavier, though he had gained no External Soul Bone.
• Tie Xiong changed into clothes, hugged Liu Erlong, and revealed his yellow and purple Soul Rings to Flender, Lu Qibin, and Qin Ming.
• Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling came out of a tent, and Dugu Yan admired Tie Xiong's purple Soul Ring before saying she expected to obtain one after reaching her third Soul Ring.

Tie Xiong and Tailong both absorbed Soul Rings beyond the accepted limits, prompting the academy leaders to consider changing Soul Master theory. Back at Blue Tyrant Academy, Liu Erlong ordered Tie Xiong to test his new Vajra State skill against her, and he prepared to fight her in her Red Dragon True Form.

• Tie Xiong boasted about his cultivation, irritating Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling, then joined the group as Tailong set out to hunt his third Soul Ring.
• Dugu Yan questioned her grandfather's lack of attention to her cultivation after seeing Tie Xiong's progress, while Tailong fought a 2,700-year-old Earth Demon Ape.
• Tailong defeated the Earth Demon Ape and successfully absorbed its Soul Ring, surpassing the accepted limit for a third ring.
• Meng Shenji praised Tie Xiong's method and invited him to visit Heaven Dou Royal Academy, while Tai Tan promised to obtain Old Goat's Herb Compendium for him.
• Liu Erlong took Tie Xiong to the lake and ordered him to test his second Soul Skill, Vajra State, by attacking her.
• Tie Xiong summoned his Heaven Breaking Hammer and External Soul Bone as Liu Erlong transformed into her Red Dragon True Form.

Tie Xiong tested his newly acquired second Soul Ring against Liu Erlong, stacking his strength until he entered the Limit State and knocked her to the ground. The chapter ended with him pinning her using Vajra State’s gravity effect and explaining the skill’s abilities.

• Liu Erlong struck Tie Xiong and gauged that his strength had risen to three thousand jin since obtaining his second Soul Ring.
• Tie Xiong activated Berserk State, Vajra State, and his External Soul Bone, then attacked Liu Erlong with Full-Power Strike and calculated how the enhancements stacked.
• Tie Xiong continued hammering Liu Erlong as his strength climbed, entering the Limit State on his twelfth hammer and forcing her back.
• Tie Xiong knocked Liu Erlong to the ground and leaped onto her, declaring that he wanted to ride a dragon and become a Dragon Knight.
• Tie Xiong activated Vajra State again, using its gravity effect to pin Liu Erlong down, and explained that the skill tripled his Soul Power, defense, and strength.

Tie Xiong fled after kissing Liu Erlong, then learned Flender had arranged a blacksmith shop near Blue Tyrant Academy. His Soul Power had risen to Level 24, so the teachers ordered him to stabilize his cultivation before his family arrived and the Tie Family Blacksmith Shop opened.

• Tie Xiong kissed Liu Erlong, confessed that he liked her, and escaped before she could react.
• Liu Erlong searched for Tie Xiong and wrestled with her feelings after he was gone.
• Flender showed Tie Xiong and Lu Qibin the new blacksmith shop near Blue Tyrant Academy and explained that his Soul Breaking Needle sales had funded it.
• Tie Xiong tested at Soul Power Level 24, and Liu Erlong, Flender, and Lu Qibin worried about his rapid cultivation.
• Liu Erlong and Lu Qibin told Tie Xiong to stabilize his foundation and continue training in the Illusion Realm.
• Two months later, Li Yusong brought Tie Xiong's parents and brother to Heaven Dou City, and the Tie Family Blacksmith Shop opened.

Tie Xiong reunited with his family, registered his astonishing Soul Master progress at Spirit Hall, and drew the attention of Platinum Bishop Salas. Salas offered him a Soul Bone to recruit him, but Tie Xiong asked for one over fifty thousand years old, leaving the bishop unwilling to promise it.

• Tie Xiong gave the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer technique to his father and brothers, and his family celebrated his rapid cultivation and level twenty-four Soul Power.
• Tie Xiong decided to register at Spirit Hall, and Liu Erlong and Flender accompanied him to the Heaven Dou City branch.
• A Spirit Hall deacon recorded Tie Xiong as a level twenty-four Soul Grandmaster with a Heaven Breaking Hammer and one yellow and one purple Soul Ring.
• Salas introduced himself as the Platinum Bishop and praised Tie Xiong before Flender gave him the academies' theory on Soul Ring absorption limits.
• Salas invited Tie Xiong to join the Martial Soul Holy Hall, offering a Soul Bone to help him pursue a ten-thousand-year third Soul Ring.
• Tie Xiong asked for a strength-type Soul Bone over fifty thousand years old, and Salas said the Pope would decide what Soul Bone he could receive.

Salas reviewed Tie Xiong’s unusual Soul Ring progress and sent his report to the Pope, while Flender and Liu Erlong discussed Spirit Hall’s offer and publicizing the theory of exceeding Soul Ring limits. Back at Blue Tyrant Academy, Tie Xiong received the Breaking Clan’s Herb Compendium and discovered several rare herbs, including Immortal Herbs.

• Salas examined Flender’s theory and Tie Xiong’s records, then sent them to the Pope marked top secret.
• Flender and Liu Erlong urged Tie Xiong to consider joining Spirit Hall if it offered a Soul Bone, and Flender proposed making the Soul Ring theory public.
• Tie Xiong said he would join Spirit Hall only if it provided a Soul Bone over fifty thousand years old.
• Tai Nuo delivered the Breaking Clan’s Herb Compendium to Tie Xiong at Blue Tyrant Academy.
• Tie Xiong studied the compendium and found entries for the Nine Grade Purple Ganoderma, Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum, Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower, and Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng.

Tie Xiong found illustrations of several Immortal Herbs and decided to visit Heaven Dou Royal Academy to train and pursue his plans. He arrived with Liu Erlong and Flender and was given a luxurious villa equipped for cultivation and forging.

• Tie Xiong discovered that the Herb Compendium included Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass, Infernal Delicate Apricot, and other valuable herbs, and decided he needed to visit Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• Tie Xiong persuaded Liu Erlong that he needed to build strength for the upheaval he expected, and she agreed to accompany him; Flender joined them the next day.
• At Heaven Dou City’s gates, Tie Xiong saw Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s public recruitment notice and urged Liu Erlong to recruit teachers for Blue Tyrant Academy as well.
• Qin Ming welcomed Tie Xiong, Liu Erlong, and Flender to Heaven Dou Royal Academy and showed them the villa prepared for Tie Xiong.
• Tie Xiong inspected the villa’s Gravity Chamber and forging-themed Mimicry Training Room, then joked that its comfortable surroundings might help him cultivate faster, irritating Liu Erlong.

Tie Xiong joined Heaven Dou Royal Academy and tested its new gravity training facility, impressing the students with his strength. He provoked Yu Tianheng on the fifth tier before continuing to cultivate under sixfold gravity.

• Flender and Liu Erlong left Heaven Dou Royal Academy after Qin Ming explained that the education committee wanted Tie Xiong to stay, and Qin Ming told Tie Xiong he would train with the Heaven Supreme Grade students.
• Tie Xiong arrived at the main campus, showed Osler and Yu Feng his yellow and purple Soul Rings, and learned that Dugu Yan had gone to hunt for her third Soul Ring.
• Tie Xiong climbed the gravity-training stairway to the fourth tier, where Shi Mo and Shi Mo marveled at how easily he endured the pressure.
• Tie Xiong teased Yu Tianheng by calling him his nephew and challenged him to absorb a third Soul Ring older than Tie Xiong's second Soul Ring.
• Tie Xiong reached the sixth tier and began cultivating under sixfold gravity, leaving Yu Tianheng angry at his provocation.

Tie Xiong trained with the Heaven Dou Royal Academy students and helped sharpen their combat skills before Meng Yiran arrived with Dragon Duke and Snake Granny. After showing them the academy, Tie Xiong proposed a plan for Meng Yiran’s future Soul Rings and named the Man Faced Demon Spider as a suitable Soul Beast.

• Tie Xiong trained at the academy, healed by Ye Lingling, then challenged Yu Tianheng and defeated him while praising the improvements in his combat skills.
• Qin Ming welcomed Tie Xiong as a partner in the students’ practical combat training, and the group accepted him.
• On Tie Xiong’s third day at the academy, Meng Yiran arrived with Dragon Duke and Snake Granny, and Tie Xiong embraced her at the entrance.
• Tie Xiong showed the visitors around Heaven Dou Royal Academy and invited Meng Yiran to cultivate there with help from Teacher Lu’s Star Luo Illusion.
• When Meng Shu asked about Meng Yiran’s future Soul Rings, Tie Xiong recommended the Man Faced Demon Spider for her Serpent Cane Martial Soul.

Tie Xiong arranged for Meng Yiran to train at Blue Tyrant Academy, then returned to Heaven Dou Royal Academy and cultivated until he reached level twenty-five. When Dugu Yan challenged him to test her new poison, he used realgar liquor and Qin Ming’s flames to neutralize it, leaving her stunned.

• Tie Xiong impressed Dragon Duke and Snake Granny with his knowledge of the Man Faced Demon Spider, and they left Meng Yiran at Blue Tyrant Academy to train with Lu Qibin.
• Tie Xiong returned to Heaven Dou Royal Academy, where he cultivated for a month and reached level twenty-five; Liu Erlong visited and beat him.
• Dugu Yan challenged Tie Xiong to a match, and he proposed a bet that she would owe him one condition if he could break her poison.
• Tie Xiong brought Dugu Yan to Qin Ming and explained that he had brought the poison’s natural nemesis.
• Dugu Yan released her Jade Phosphorus Purple Poison, and Tie Xiong shattered a jar of Realgar Strong Liquor over it with his Heaven Breaking Hammer.
• Qin Ming set the scattered liquor alight, and the resulting fiery mist dispelled Dugu Yan’s poison, leaving her incredulous.

Tie Xiong explained how Realgar Strong Liquor and Qin Ming’s flames had countered Dugu Yan’s poison, then proposed using a Soul Bone to store the Jade Phosphor Snake’s toxins and protect her. Dugu Yan agreed to ask her grandfather to obtain Shi Nian’s Soul Bone, leaving Tie Xiong behind after teasing and kissing him.

• Tie Xiong explained that Realgar Strong Liquor had condensed Dugu Yan’s toxic mist so Qin Ming’s flames could destroy it, and Qin Ming warned her to be careful around fire-attribute Soul Masters.
• Tie Xiong told Dugu Yan that her poison might be harming her and passing through her bloodline, leading her to worry that it had caused her parents’ deaths.
• Tie Xiong suggested that Dugu Yan absorb a Soul Bone to store her poison, and named Shi Nian as someone who had one.
• Dugu Yan promised to offer herself to Tie Xiong if the method cured her, then said she would ask her grandfather for help without revealing Tie Xiong’s involvement.
• Dugu Yan kissed Tie Xiong on the cheek and left, while Tie Xiong turned to cultivation.

Tie Xiong met Crown Prince Xue Qinghe, secretly Qian Renxue, and used the visit to secure her protection and a promise of a comprehensive Herb Compendium. Qian Renxue left impressed by his devotion to cultivation and ordered Snake Lance Douluo to obtain Spirit Hall’s Herb Compendium and warn Salas not to target him.

• Qin Ming brought Tie Xiong to the Education Committee Hall, where Meng Shenji introduced him to Crown Prince Xue Qinghe.
• Tie Xiong told Qian Renxue that Salas had offered him a Soul Bone to join Spirit Hall, prompting Qian Renxue to promise protection from Spirit Hall’s harassment.
• Tie Xiong asked Qian Renxue for a physical cultivation method and a more comprehensive Herb Compendium, then squeezed her hand after she examined his Iron Forging Hand.
• Qian Renxue gave Tie Xiong a golden token and promised to provide the Herb Compendium.
• In her carriage, Qian Renxue asked Snake Lance Douluo to request Spirit Hall’s Herb Compendium from her grandfather and warn Salas not to make a move against Tie Xiong.

Tie Xiong bluntly advised Qian Renxue to strengthen the Heaven Dou Empire and build her own power, then proposed winning over the Clear Sky Sect’s four affiliated clans. Qian Renxue took his counsel seriously and began considering how to recruit them.

• Tie Xiong visited Qian Renxue at the Crown Prince's Residence and told her that the Heaven Dou Empire was failing to prepare for the continent’s shifting balance of power.
• Tie Xiong urged Qian Renxue to recruit powerful Soul Masters, warning that her position would be insecure without strength behind her.
• Tie Xiong proposed marriage alliances with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, and Qian Renxue said she would consider it.
• Tie Xiong recommended recruiting the Clear Sky Sect’s four expelled affiliated clans, explaining their circumstances and which would be easiest to win over.
• Qian Renxue was tempted by Tie Xiong’s advice, while Tie Xiong privately planned to undermine the Tang Sect and obtain the Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng.